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This document is a legal declaration by Maureen P. Baird, a former BOP Warden, submitted to the Westminster Magistrates' Court for the extradition case of Julian Assange. Baird provides expert testimony on the harsh conditions of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs), the ADX Florence supermax prison, and Communication Management Units (CMUs). Significantly, she references the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein at MCC New York (where she was formerly Warden) multiple times to illustrate the failure of BOP suicide prevention protocols, noting specifically that cameras malfunction and self-reporting is unreliable.